#2 - Monday 12 September '22

Have a great week - Niall

Brain Food

“On the other hand, my commitment to depth has rewarded me. In the ten-year period following my college graduation, I published four books, earned a PhD, wrote peer-reviewed academic papers at a high rate, and was hired as a tenure-track professor at Georgetown University. I maintained this voluminous production while rarely working past five or six p.m. during the workweek.

This compressed schedule is possible because I’ve invested significant effort to minimise the shallow in my life while making sure I get the most out of the time this frees up. I build my days around a core of carefully chosen deep work, with the shallow activities I absolutely cannot avoid batched into smaller bursts at the peripheries of my schedule.

Three to four hours a day, five days a week, of uninterrupted and carefully directed concentration, it turns out, can produce a lot of valuable output.”

Cal Newport on how he prioritises deep work to get sh*t done (from the book Deep Work)

Quick Quote

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rare Air

"A lot of people have stopped creating, good artists and you see them on twitter all the time, it’s like put it down and please make something."

Louis CK and Joe Rogan on how the internet makes you procrastinate and avoid the work

Appendix

How do you capture ideas? I want to get better at capturing ideas I come across in books, or podcasts or anywhere. This got me started on The Notecard System.

My Content

#honesty won Best Online Series at the City of Angels Women’s Film Festival in Sherwood, California.

I’m chuffed for everyone involved.

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